An architect responsible for scores of successful multifamily projects has revealed an innovative design, engineering and materials solution to reduce the risk of fires from lithium/ion batteries on electric bikes in apartment building storage rooms.

Spherexx CRM users received a complimentary upgrade this month inside their ILoveLeasing subscriptions. The lead management and analytics program launched in 2006 and has been serving multi-family industry clients since with regularly enhanced attributes.

Nurture Boss, a premier lease conversion automation tool that provides marketing solutions for the multifamily industry, today announced it has rolled out its Lease and Renewal Conversion Automation across Western Wealth Communities’ entire portfolio. 

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RentPath / ApartmentGuide.com has announced they will soon include apartment community names within their search engine marketing strategy.  Previously, the ILS had refrained on advertising on property names of their clients, but this practice will change on February 25th.  Below is the notice given for this change:

LIVEbe, a premier apartment developer and operator dedicated to delivering distinct apartment homes within connected communities, has announced the addition of refrigerated lockers to its 2Hopkins apartment community in Downtown Baltimore. 

The National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) has been named a 2017 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year – Energy Efficiency Program Delivery Award for sponsoring programs to improve the energy efficiency of the nation’s 20 million apartment homes. 

RealPage, Inc. today announced it has agreed to acquire substantially all of the assets of Axiometrics, a leading provider of apartment market data. Axiometrics will be combined with MPF Research, a division of RealPage. In addition, RealPage has entered into a long-term relationship with Real Capital Analytics (RCA), a leading authority on multifamily sales transaction data. Combining data from Axiometrics, MPF Research and RCA with the data analytics power of RealPage, which is based on tens of millions of real time lease transactions, will create a unique market intelligence platform. The company expects this platform to be the most-referenced apartment data analytics solution in the U.S.